Leaving Comments on Posts

Some people have been asking how to leave a comment on a post. Here is a goofy model of how to do that...I am experimenting with a free website called Screenr that I'm going to use with my students to have them explain things on our blog. Sorry I am talking so slowly!

One of the most important things to know, and that I forgot to mention making this Screenr, was to make sure you are actually commenting on the post you want to talk about. If you go to another page, or scroll down to an older post, your comment might be lost out there somewhere.
Hope this helps.

GREAT IC GRADEBOOK NEWS!

So, at our PLC, Tara figured out that we hadn't set up our categories on our 2012-2013 gradebook, and while going to do that, I figured out we can copy the categories from last year!!

Here's how to do it...
1. Go to Edit Grade Calc Options.
    ELA and MATH are going to be overall as traditional A-F, while all the little categories in those subjects will be %.
If you use the drop down menu fill all for the %, just go back and change the T1, T2, and T3 overall grade to traditional.
All the other subjects will be traditional A-F.

2. Go to the top left of your screen and use the 2011-2012 year, then go to edit categories, and choose copy categories. You have to do each subject separately, choosing to copy them to this year.
Click next, then you also have to use the drop down arrow to choose what to assign the category too, for example informational text or writing.

3. NOW YOU CAN ADD ASSIGNMENTS!
Yeah? More help to follow, or post your help here.

Wish I had Said That...

OK, so while working on my classroom blog, I found this post by another teacher. I sure wish I had said this to my students, as truly it's what I believe...even after a day of dinosaur noises and boys pretending to have broken legs and other 6th GRADE!! issues. Here's the quote, plus a link to the blog.

I started school today. I told the students, "I'm more like a miner of gold than a teacher. There is gold inside you and I want to find it. It won't look like gold when we dig it out, but if we work together to recognize the value of your talents and polish them together, you'll come out shining. That is my purpose."
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

I'll try to keep this in mind tomorrow, as it's true.

Infinite Campus Issues

OK, so while I am the least caught up usually, I thought I would avoid the disaster of keeping grades on paper, then having to add them all at once by adding the work I have right now...
SO, when I go to create the assignment, I can't click on the part where it says,

Create scoring alignment(s) to Grade Book by selecting from the following choices:

Standards Select which standards get this assignment.

It won't let me click on anything - and there are six strands of math for me to choose from. So I can't create and save the assignment right now.

When I took a survey only 3/26 students didn't have a computer with internet access! So I was thinking maybe some parents would want to actually look at their kids' grades, and I should be ready.

Wishful thinking on all counts?

If anyone knows what is going on, could you comment? Thank you - it seemed like a good thing to do while watching water polo!